Re: daemons terminating

On Tue Oct 29, 2002 at 08:37:35PM +0100, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> I'm having problems with the daemon-function on a 48 Mhz motorola 860.
> It seems like parent process terminates before the child process has had 
> time
> to become session leader. Am I the only one with this problem?
> If a apply following patch everything works,

That sounds pretty wierd.  There should be no such race.
    <sound of Erik thinking>

Can you try this patch and let me know if it helps?

--- libc/unistd/daemon.c        11 Jan 2002 13:30:41 -0000      1.6
+++ libc/unistd/daemon.c        30 Oct 2002 08:27:53 -0000
@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@
        if (setsid() == -1)
                return(-1);
 
+       /* Make certain we are not a session leader, or else we
+        * might reacquire a controlling terminal */
+       if (fork())
+               _exit(0);
+
        if (!nochdir)
                chdir("/");

 -Erik

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